title: Microbiological indicators and sediment management.
abstract: The Water Frame Directive 2000/60/CE underlines the importance of sediments and requests the creation of a European net (SedNet) for their management. Sediments play an important role for the river basin and offer a variety of habitats to many aquatic organisms. Microorganisms, such as Clostridia, are indispensable for a lot of symbiotic and pathogenic relationships with higher organisms and the disappearance of these communities could cause extinction of many species. Thus, Clostridia communities represent the most suitable microbiological indicators to characterize the ecological quality of sediments. The creation of SedNet may make it possible to develop a series of best recommendation in sediment management.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ambiente e Connessa Prevenzione Primaria, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. laura.mancini@iss.it
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mancini
authors.forename: Sirona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosemann
authors.forename: Camilla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Puccinelli
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ciadamidaro
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marcheggiani
authors.forename: Francesca Anna
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Aulicino
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000382:microbiology*; D014871:Water Microbiology